Why are countries named “the People’s Democratic Republic” always autocratic tyrannies and why do regimes who bemoan the lack of baby milk seem awash with expensive rpgs and machine guns?
Sound familiar?
Continue reading “The Labour that doesn’t work”The mass working-class defection to the Conservative Party; the colonisation of Labour by middle-class graduates; the transformation of Labour from a party of working people into a metropolitan machine more concerned with gender-neutral toilets and taking the knee than with what working-class people want and need
Can any inquiry that shuts itself to scientific possibilities before reaching a conclusion be an inquiry? How do you “fact check” an investigation still in progress?
The story of Franz Jägerstätter, the Austrian altar server who was executed for conscientious objection to the Third Reich, was made into a movie by Terrence Malick, director the Thin Red Line.
When you think of energy, especially hydrocarbon energy as bad, you don’t prioritize a stockpile or reserve of it. You don’t want to stockpile immoral substances which it turns out are absolutely vital.
Continue reading ““Dual use” of gain-of-function research”This area of scientific activity, experts told Sinclair, carries a “dual-use”: It supports the development of new vaccines and therapeutics but can also be used in covert biological- and chemical-weapons programs, which China is suspected of maintaining.
Maybe the economy is struggling because there’s not enough energy.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Energy-Crisis-That-No-One-Is-Talking-About.html
Continue reading “Maybe energy is good for something”Continue reading “Jobs report: US added 266,000 jobs in April, shockingly short of expectations”Experts in the United States have been shocked by a surprisingly weak jobs report, which President Joe Biden is spinning as proof of the need for further stimulus.
The influence of bits on the world of atoms, identifying people worth trusting, the origin of joy, the decoupling of the American Dream from the university, and more.
Donald Trump is out of the White House — and mostly gone from the public eye — but his grip on the G.O.P. base has probably never been stronger.
NYT
The latest meme. Democracy is dying in America (perhaps true) but it’s the populist’s fault. They are forcing the progressives to be fascist. By casting the Other as monstrous racists it is psychologically possible to justify the reprehensible as necessity.
“The use of violence is a tactic of how we keep our communities safe,” Milo said.
Antifa member
https://abcnews.go.com/US/year-protests-portland-residents-waning-patience-antifa/story?id=77511470
Treasury officials on Wednesday urged Congress to pass either a new borrowing limit or another suspension of the debt before a July 31 deadline. The Treasury will continue to initiate the types of bookkeeping maneuvers it has used in the past to keep the government from breaching a level that would trigger a default on the massive national debt.
AP
Many active cases in tourism reliant country despite Sinovac vaccination.
Organized crime unhappy Prinsloo made them look like clowns.
